Event 21: Bradley Snider Leads Final Table

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
End of Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 529

Bradley Snider
Bradley Snider leads the $2,650 No Limit Hold’em final table

On Monday evening, the second of The Big 4 final tables were set and it’s 21-year-old Florida native Bradley Snider with a big chip lead heading into the final day of play in the $2,650 No Limit Hold’em.

Snider finished the day with 3,210,000 in chips and has more than double his closest competitor. The 21-year-old leads a final table that has plenty of experience at it.

Dan Heimiller, Jerry Wong, James Gilbert, Dermot Blain, and Koray Aldemir will all be joining Snider on Tuesday.

Heimiller is a long-time veteran of the game with two WSOP bracelets to his name. Wong is a current November Niner, Gilbert has over $1 million in career tournament earnings and a second place finish in a WPT main event, while Aldemir final tabled the $100,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop this past summer at the WSOP. Blain brings an international flair to the final table. The Irish pro has over $2 million in tournament earnings and finished second in a preliminary event this series.

Rounding out the final table are Alex Wilson, Jeffrey Chang, and well-known online pro Nicholas Immekus.

The Day 2 action kicked off on Monday at noon with 99 players coming back with hopes of surviving long enough to make the final table.

The top 71 players earned a payday and the bubble was burst fairly quickly in the day’s action, with the final 71 players in the money before the first break of the day hit.

Even after the bubble burst, the eliminations continued to pile up and many top pros hit the rail. TK Miles (61st), John Racener (46th), Jake Cody (34th), Noah Bronstein (32nd), Jake Bazeley (30th), Chino Rheem (28th), Ben Zamani (25th), Jeremy Ausmus (23rd), and Scott Clements (16th) were among the notable pros to hit the rail inside the money.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown champion Justin Young fell just shy of making this final table, finishing in 10th place when his king-queen fell victim to Snider’s ace-king.

Young’s elimination secured spots at the final table for the remaining nine players. They will get cards back in the air for the final table on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Hard Rock Live.

All four of The Big 4 final tables will be running simultaneously alongside one another with Maria Ho and Ali Nejad MC’ing the action.

Here is the seating arrangement and chip counts for the final table:

Seat 1: Nicholas Immekus – 495,000
Seat 2: James Gilbert – 965,000
Seat 3: Jeffrey Chang – 580,000
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller – 1,370,000
Seat 5: Bradley Snider – 3,210,000
Seat 6: Jerry Wong – 1,345,000
Seat 7: Koray Aldemir – 680,000
Seat 8: Alex Wilson – 1,305,000
Seat 9: Dermot Blain – 630,000